Charlie Gilbert
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Charles Mader Gilbert (July 8, 1919 – August 13, 1983) was an American professional baseball outfielder who appeared in 364 games, mostly as a center fielder, in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1940), Chicago Cubs (1941–1943 and 1946) and Philadelphia Phillies (1946–1947). He threw and batted left-handed and stood Script error: No such module "convert". tall and weighed Script error: No such module "convert"..
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was the son of former MLB outfielder and longtime minor-league manager Larry Gilbert; his brother Tookie also played in the majors.
Charlie Gilbert served in the United States Navy in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.[1] He joined the Dodgers in his second pro season, in Template:Mlby. In his third MLB game, on April 23, 1940, he hit a pair of home runs against the Boston Bees in an 8–3 Brooklyn victory at Ebbets Field.[2] He thus became the first player, and one of three men in the history of the Dodgers' franchise, to have a multi-home-run game in his first five starts; the others are Cody Bellinger and Yasiel Puig.[3]
He died at age 64 in New Orleans. Gilbert's daughter Jan went on the memorialize her late father in Goodbye, Dad, a series of mixed-media works utilizing family photographs.[4]
References
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- ↑ Charlie Gilbert, Baseball in Wartime
- ↑ Retrosheet box score (23 April 1940): "Brooklyn Dodgers 8, Boston Bees 3"
- ↑ True Blue LA.com
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